PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC FROM HANK WILLIAMS
SURFACES IN THE GARDEN SPOT PROGRAMS, 1950

On May 20, Omnivore Recordings will issue 24 songs and jingles
recorded in Nashville, and last heard generations ago

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 17, 2014) — Omnivore Recordings will soon release the full-length version of The Garden Spot Programs, 1950, featuring 24 performances, unheard for 64 years, from country music legend Hank Williams. Rescued from obscurity, these shows originally aired more than six decades ago; The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 collects material from the four episodes now known to exist. Due out May 20, 2014, the set follows the release of Omnivore’s collectible 10” vinyl Record Store Day EP sampler.

From hits to standards to songs rarely (if ever) performed, this is pure Hank Williams, including playful between-song banter. Featuring fully restored audio, The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 is an exceptional listening experience. Painstakingly transferred, restored and mastered from original transcription discs by Grammy Award winning engineer Michael Graves. Williams’ daughter, Jett, is excited that her father’s lost material is not only seeing the light of day decades later, but will be available on CD, digital and LP.

The CD packaging contains rare photos and liner notes from the collection of set co-producer and Williams biographer Colin Escott. Also available on LP, the first pressing will be on limited edition, translucent red vinyl (with black vinyl to follow), containing Escott’s informative notes and a download card.

Escott writes in his notes: “Set the time machine for early morning on KSIB-AM, Creston, Iowa. February 1950. Country radio was beginning its slow transition from live music to DJ shows. Live music and DJ shows were augmented by transcribed shows. After buying 15 minutes of airtime on small-market stations, sponsors would prerecord shows with well known artists, duplicate them, and ship them out on 12 or 16-inch transcribed discs.”

“That’s how Hank Williams came to be on KSIB in February 1950. Sandwiched between the local ‘live’ acts, it was almost as if he were visiting with Skeets and those Radio Rascals. His sponsor was one of the nation’s largest plant nurseries, Naughton Farms, seven hundred miles south in Waxahachie, Texas. Given that Naughton was a big player in the nursery business, Hank’s shows were almost certainly shipped to many small stations, but only KSIB’s copies survived. Those of us who have studied Hank’s life and career had no idea that these recordings existed.”

Any music from Hank Williams is worth celebrating. Discovering material that has been unheard for generations is monumental.

“It’s incredible to me that we’re still finding new recordings by my dad — great ones at that,” says Jett Williams. “No one even suspected that these recordings existed. We partnered with Omnivore Recordings for this release, and I especially love it that they’re taking my dad back to vinyl.”

Burbank, Calif. April 22, 2014 – *Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music *-
the four-hour Director’s Cut of the 1970 Oscar�-winning documentary about
the landmark music event that featured some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll
performers in history — will be released July 29 in a new Blu-ray *40th
Anniversary Limited Edition Revisited*.

This latest release will contain the complete *40th Anniversary Ultimate
Collector’s Edition *(*UCE*) plus brand new concert footage from Jefferson
Airplane, Joan Baez, Santana, The Who and more. There are new premiums – a
reproduction of Woodstock Festival tickets and articles from Life Magazine
and The New York Times- in addition to a re-issue of the Woodstock logo
iron-on patch.

*New Never-Seen Concert Footage: *

• *Book of Love*

• *Come Back Baby*

• *Everything’s Gonna Be Alright*

• *Helplessly Hoping *and* Marrakesh Express*

• *Mr. Tambourine Man a*nd* Tuning My Guitar*

• *Oh Happy Day *and* I Shall Be Released*

• *Persuasion*

• *Pinball Wizard*

*New Concert Footage – Previous Limited Availability: *

• *Mama Tried*

• *Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine*

• *Spanish** Castle** Magic*

• *Sparks*

• *Volunteers*

• *Woodstock** Boogie *

The bonus material from the original *UCE* contained two hours of
performance footage from many of the above groups as well as a featurette
gallery showcasing interviews with Martin Scorsese, Michael Lang, director
Michael Wadleigh, Hugh Hefner, Eddie Kramer (the concert’s original chief
on-site engineer and producer-engineer for Jimi Hendrix) and others who
chronicle the making of the festival and the film. Included are such
segments as *3 Days in a Truck, No Rain! No Rain! *and* Living Up To
Idealism.*

*WOODSTOCK** 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Revisited** Contents*

*(Previously Released)*

� *Woodstock**: 3 Days of Peace and Music Director’s Cut*

� *Woodstock: Untold Stories *18 performances

� *Woodstock**: From Festival to Feature* Interviews of the sights and
sounds of the 3 day event, from concert goers, promoters, crew and
musicians

*About Woodstock and the Film*

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the
rural town of Bethel, New York on a sometimes rain-soaked weekend from
August 15 to August 18, 1969. Half a million people of all colors, shapes,
sizes, ages and sexes attended this historical event. They came by car, by
truck, a few even by helicopter, but the majority *walked* to what turned
out to be the most famous festival in history, an event that was
hailed by *Rolling
Stone Magazine* as one of the “50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock
‘n’ Roll.”

Winner of the Academy Award� for Best Documentary Feature (and nominated
for Best Editing and Best Sound), *Woodstock *was produced by Bob Maurice
and directed by Michael Wadleigh, who assembled an outstanding crew that
included young filmmakers at the start of their careers Academy
Award�winners: director Martin Scorsese
[1] (*The* *Wolf of Wall Street*) and editor Thelma
Schoonmaker[2] * (The Wolf of Wall Street)*.
Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman created the
original Festival.